skirmish
noun
a fight between small bodies of troops, especially advanced or outlying detachments of opposing armies.
skirmisher
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a word derived from
skirmish.
Example Sentences
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It must be confessed that Si was somewhat unduly elated and puffed up over, his own achievements as a skirmisher and his success in climbing the ladder of military rank and fame.
From Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6) His Transformation From A Raw Recruit To A Veteran by John McElroy
Curly deployed as a skirmisher, and finally arrived in front of Tom Osby's adobe.
From Heart's Desire by Emerson Hough
He was a famous skirmisher, and had never left off that game.
From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Neither should a skirmisher have much to fear from a single horseman.
From A Treatise on the Tactical Use of the Three Arms: Infantry, Artillery, and Cavalry by Francis J. (Francis James) Lippitt
The modern apologist must do ephemeral work—unless it should chance that he proves to be the skirmisher, pioneering for a modified dogmatic.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" by Various
